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    1RU server way too loud

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by waloshin, Jul 14, 2009.

  1. waloshin

    waloshin Notebook Consultant

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    Now I know servers are not supposed to be ran in bedrooms or even homes. So I have a Hp Proliant dl 140 sevrer in my room it sounds like a hair blow dryer. I was wondering if I put ear plugs in at night time would I still loose hearing, or even go deaf? Any suggestions, I would put it in a closet , but the only closet would be the one in the living room and nobody would want to hear the thing all day long. I was also wondering, could I set it up as wakeup on lan? Would it shutdown after the request was done? If not thats alright. It will be running as a webserver for kicks!

    Options:

    A) By the best reuseable ear plugs for under $50.00

    B) Sell the server and use a desktop as the server.

    Server Specs:

    Hp Proliant dl 140

    2 x (3.2ghz Intel Xeon 512kb cache L2 Hyper Threaded)Seen as 4 cpus

    2 gb of ddr pc2100 ecc ram
     
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  2. sirmetman

    sirmetman Notebook Virtuoso

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    B. What would you need that much power for? Are you serving music to your entire neighborhood? :)
     
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  3. jackluo923

    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Um... he doesn't. This server is like a bit less powerful than the weakest quadcore desktop that you can buy in stores for $400-500.
     
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  4. waloshin

    waloshin Notebook Consultant

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    Dual processor Xeon 3.2ghz 512kb L2 cache, 533mhz fsb

    Versus

    Amd X4 Phenom 9650

    Pure processing power.
     
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  5. MidnightSun

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    I don't think it's supposed to be that loud. Perhaps you have a lot of dust inside.

    Two months or so ago, I took a vacuum cleaner and cleaned out all the dust from inside my brother's desktop, which was running very loudly, with the fan kicking into high gear only a minute after boot. After vacuuming most of the dust out and cleaning the edges of the fan blades off, the desktop has been running near-silent ever since, even when he is gaming.
     
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  6. jackluo923

    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I built myself a desktop comptuer with AMD x4 Phenom 9550 with 4GB of ram, 750GB hdd...etc for under $300USD.

    AMD is the best when you don't want to spend a lot of money, but want superb performance.
     
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  7. waloshin

    waloshin Notebook Consultant

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    Well it is running 5 1u server fans likely running at 10,000+ rpm each. 40mm big.
     
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  8. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    If you decide to sell your server, or part it out, I may be interested in those 40mm fans you have.

    You can control the fans through the BIOS. Set the fans to automatic, and they will be only used dependant upon how much cpu power is needed. So the hotter it gets the faster the fans spin.
    I have that setting on my server, surprisingly the fans for my quad 2347's do not come on for a very long time. When the fans come on, they are on low, and than they shut off soon when the temperatures drop.

    If you have no fan control in the Hardware monitoring tab in your BIOS, than I recommend buying a fan controller. Tune the fan speed according to how hot your processors are getting.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Jul 14, 2009
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